Changing Education for a Changing Economy

Snips of an article by Tod Maffin

"Today’s net generation needs schools that recognize the student’s role as co-discoverer of knowledge, with the teacher responsible for seeing that the discovery takes place. Today’s learners are demanding tools to experience their world directly, rather than absorbing it through the filter of an adult world. Children are beginning to see themselves as intellectual agents -- members of real and virtual communities, expressing themselves across boundaries of geography, culture, language, and age.

With the right support, classroom learning can become student-driven, interactive, experiential and collaborative. Students will no longer passively ingest information, but will manage and integrate it and even contribute to it. They will become not only takers, but creators of knowledge."

So more "Adult" like in their learning?? I have always believed that "Adult Learning Principles" should not be restricted to adults. Just think 4-H - "Learn to do by doing."